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Santa Cruz de la Sierra weather

Santa Cruz Department · 1,831,434 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 14:48

Overcast
27°
Overcast
Feels like 33°C
Wind
6 km/h
Gusts
6 km/h
Humidity
52 %
Pressure
1013 hPa
Clouds
100 %
Storm
No
Rise 05:34 Set 18:17 Day 12 h 43 min UV 3 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Afternoon
Overcast
Overcast
27°25°
Feels like 33°
Wind ↑ NNW 7 km/h
Humidity 52 %
Evening
Overcast
Overcast
23°22°
Feels like 30°
Wind ↑ W 4 km/h
Humidity 78 %
14:00
Overcast
27°
E 6
17:00
Overcast
25°
NNW 7

Santa Cruz de la Sierra forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +4.5° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
18°24°31°37°43°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed41°27°Thu 29 Oct: max 27° · min 20° · normal 24.9°Fri 30 Oct: max 30° · min 21° · normal 25.0°Sat 31 Oct: max 35° · min 21° · normal 25.0°Sun 1 Nov: max 37° · min 24° · normal 25.0°Mon 2 Nov: max 40° · min 25° · normal 25.0°Tue 3 Nov: max 41° · min 26° · normal 25.0°Wed 4 Nov: max 41° · min 27° · normal 25.0°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu19°31°43°41°21°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Santa Cruz de la Sierra climate: what a normal year looks like

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from October to March; the typical peak is 31 °C in January.

The hottest stretch is January, when afternoons average 31 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 16 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 1,190 mm of rain — more than 62% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 36 °C, 5 °C warmer than a normal October (31 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan31 °C22 °C177 mm
Feb30 °C22 °C146 mm
Mar30 °C22 °C126 mm
Apr29 °C21 °C72 mm
May26 °C18 °C66 mm
Jun25 °C17 °C57 mm
Jul25 °C16 °C46 mm
Aug28 °C18 °C46 mm
Sep30 °C19 °C67 mm
Oct31 °C21 °C89 mm
Nov31 °C22 °C124 mm
Dec31 °C22 °C171 mm
Whole year29 °C20 °C1,190 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 17.79° S, 63.18° W, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Santa Cruz de la Sierra: pollution and pollen

2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.512µg/m³
PM1013µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Santa Cruz de la Sierra

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Santa Cruz de la Sierra, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas
Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

No open weather radar covers Santa Cruz de la Sierra yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Santa Cruz de la Sierra

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 18:03 Set 04:18
Fri 30/10 79%
Sat 31/10 69%
Sun 1/11 59%
Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter
Tue 3/11 38%
Wed 4/11 28%
Thu 5/11 19%
Fri 6/11 12%
Sat 7/11 6%
Sun 8/11 2%
Mon 9/11 0%
Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (America/La_Paz); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Santa Cruz de la Sierra

Curious about the weather in Santa Cruz de la Sierra on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Santa Cruz de la Sierra weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Santa Cruz Department: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “overcast”, it is 27 °C (feels like 33 °C) and the wind blows at 6 km/h.

Expected range today: 20 °C to 27 °C and a dry sky; keep an eye on thunderstorms; it will be very hot. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations